I have finally had the validation that my casual yet persistent security awareness approach actually works and eventually gets into the consciousness (and subconscious)…
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Announcement
New Year, New Talks
I am very honoured and excited to have had a number of talks accepted and been asked to join panels at four upcoming conferences…
Privacy
Article: How to read a privacy policy in a post-GDPR world
The Verge did a great job with a quick summation video of what to look for in a privacy policy when reviewing, hopefully before…
Information Security
ALA Midwinter 2018 Denver Privacy Breakfast Recap
Thank you to all that attended my session in Denver last Saturday entitled “Shore to Shore: How Europe’s New Data Privacy Laws Help U.S.…
Library
It All Comes Down to Trust!
In reading Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe’s (@lisalibrarian) article, What Will You Do When They Come for Your Proxy Server? on Scholarly Kitchen this morning, a…
Library
Upcoming Privacy Talk at ALA Midwinter 2018
If you are going to be in Denver in early February, then please consider attending my next talk at ALA Midwinter on Saturday 10…
Information
Pragmatically Annotating
Recently, I added support for Hypothesis to Pragmatically Cynical. This is a great free, open-to-use tool for use in adding annotations to web sites as…
Information Security
How-to: Block Telemetry from Windows 10
My son has a BootCamp partition on his MacBook Pro to let him play one of his favourite games that had originally claimed to…
Information Security
On-Demand Video from ALA Annual 2017
Thanks to the social media team at ProQuest, my talk from ALA Annual 2017 entitled “Privacy is the Future: The Library’s Role as Educator,…
Information Security
In Which I Get Up In Front of a Room and Talk A Lot
Things are starting to come together for a number of talks this summer at conferences across the USA on varied topics from libraries to…